Judge Tells Kansas: 18,000 You Disenfranchised Get To Vote
Kris Kobach might not get to restrict voting rights as much as he wants to.
The Kansas Secretary of State decided that the 1993 Motor Voter act (federal law) was giving certain of those people a "magic path" to voter registration.
Yes, Kris, that was the point of the law. All of a sudden it is easier to register to vote. Like, magic!
But Kris Kobach doesn't like magic that helps those people get to the polls, in part because enough of them would vote his butt right out of office. Kobach wants all registrants to have to provide documented proof of US Citizenship, like a passport, in order to register to vote. So his party in the Kansas Legislature made sure that is a requirement in the Secretary of State's office.
It is not a requirement in the DMV office because...federal law, er, I mean, magic path. The magic path that doesn't require the poll tax of a passport fee or birth certificate re-print.
So because federal law doesn't count magic path those people, Kobach removed 18,000 voters from the rolls who did not provide the DMV with proof of citizenship.